If you were considering doing eHow, now would be the time to sign up through this link: Robert's Referral Link to eHow because they are doing a membership drive, and referrals will get me bennies. eHow is the place where I've posted so many How To articles, and it's easy to write for it. Unlike some other pay for posts places I've signed up for over the years, eHow actually paid out during the first month I was doing it.

That's a biggie in itself, a lot of them say they pay and then you wind up with 38 cents in your account after dozens of articles and wonder just who's actually getting paid there. Ehow has a template that's very rigid, it's boilerplate Step By Step Instructions and you may want to use only one paragraph per Step. Some of my articles had multiple paragraphs suddenly and mysteriously combine to one. Pictures with the steps are good, but they can be phone-cam shots as the pictures aren't very big.

It can be anything, not just how to draw stuff. That's just my gig. A lot of people seem to be raking it in on posting recipes for this and that, and household repairs or love advice. I did a few things like that, things like how to write a love letter to a goth or how to clean cat urine off your couch.

So if you wanted to try it, doing it now before the 29th will actually get me some bennies if you click that link to go sign up versus just going there off one of my articles. You also have to post at least one article, but it can be literally on anything, it just has to be How To. How to get mushrooms out of your basement. How to find things in your attic. How to pass an AP exam. Just anything you know how to do, put in Step By Step format, which is not hard with their software.

I finally got out of the up all night thing, and got up at nine this morning. Wow wow wow. Too bad that had to happen on a sick day, it's been a bad morning for the fibro n arthritis. My spine is giving me big problems at the moment and I haven't created anything, haven't finished the article for hubpages or done anything else but go through my email and pack up an ACEO to be mailed out. I need to get caught up on my Under the Sea swap cards, maybe that is what I'll try to do today. I could do one of them as a demo for the article and that'd help get things done.

We have Eric here for the summer, Kitten's fourteen year old brother. If you're wondering how her brother isn't my son, I adopted Kitten and have not adopted Eric, but he is a very cool guy. I was giving him art lessons a while back before her mom moved, and he is very talented. He came back to spend time with his friends, everyone he knows is here where he grew up.

We have the naptime waterworks starting from Sascha, but that's ephemeral. I love living here.